PDFsharp & MigraDoc Foundation

i have this line of code in my mvc 4 pdfsharp project and i cant seem to figure out how to get the decsription field to display plain text when the pdf is generated. all my other lines display fine it is just this one I cant figure out:

graphics.DrawString("" + report.Description, font, XBrushes.Black, new XRect(margin, page.Height - (lineHeight * 35), page.Width, page.Height), XStringFormats.TopCenter);
currentTop += lineHeight;


this is what the pdf displays: Normal;font-weight: bold;font-size: 16px;color: #000000;">Incident API</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana';font-style: Normal

this is what it should display: Incident API

does anyone know what I can add to this line of code to make it display properly. any advice or support would be greatly appeciated.

thank you so much

I really need help on this issue and cant seem to find anything online that works....please can someone offer me some advice and support????? i had the exact same issue in an application using razorpdf and @html.raw that worked fine but doesnt fit into the pdfsharp aplication....any help at all would be really appreciated.

thank you in advance

You have to pass plain text to the PDF functions, neither HTML nor HTML snippets.

Remove the HTML tags before you pass the string to the DrawString method.

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Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team

will this work if i still want to keep all the formatting for that string? for example, bold, italics and so on.....is this possible and do you have an example i could look at to point me in the right direction?

thanks so much

The parameters passed to DrawString specify how the output looks - font name, font size, bold and/or italics are passed in the font parameter.

See also:
http://pdfsharp.net/wiki/Graphics-sampl ... t_class_34

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Öhmesh Volta ("() => true")
PDFsharp Team Holiday Substitute

does anyone have an example to help me get started on this. i have tried so many things but nothing seems to give me the result i need. please any advice or support would be greatly appreciated.

Look at this sample code:
http://pdfsharp.net/wiki/Graphics-sampl ... t_class_34

It's up to you to separate HTML tags from text, PDFsharp was not designed to deal with HTML.

Set a counter to 0. Increment the counter for every "<" char, decrement for every ">" char. When the counter is 0, copy characters to the output string. If counter > 0 then character is part of an HTML tag.

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Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team

is there any other solution for this? i cant seem to figure it out. if there is a better example someone can provide or a little more detail that would really help alot, thank you.